
Garcia Insists All Eyes Are On Estrada Amid Bam-Inoue Speculation
Robert Garcia oversaw Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez sparring in Riverside, California, yesterday ahead of his WBC super flyweight bout with Juan Francisco Estrada.
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Robert Garcia oversaw Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez sparring in Riverside, California, yesterday ahead of his WBC super flyweight bout with Juan Francisco Estrada.


Former IBF super-bantamweight champion TJ Doheny is experiencing a renaissance, demonstrating that despite his advancing years, the 37-year-old remains a threat within the 122lbs division.

There is admittedly some irony to pouring cold water on the premise of Naoya Inoue vs. Gervonta “Tank” Davis not long after boxing’s newest powerbroker poured gasoline on a potential fight between Terence Crawford and Canelo Alvarez.



Naoya Inoue and Luis Nery worked out of a brief clinch, and the southpaw Nery was crouched slightly lower than Inoue. Seeing his opponent’s head at shoulder level, Inoue popped him in the chin with a short left uppercut, but there wasn’t much on it — not enough to deter Nery from letting loose with a full-force left cross. And with Inoue’s right glove lowered as he wound up to follow his left uppercut with a right cross, Nery’s left landed perfectly on the junior featherweight champion’s exposed jaw, twisting him 180 degrees as he spun counterclockwise to the canvas for the first time in his career.

Australia-based Irishman TJ Doheny continued staking his claim for a fight with Naoya Inoue with victory in the Tokyo Dome on Monday night. The 37-year-old southpaw scored a fourth-round stoppage of Filipino Bryl Bayagos, who is now 7-1-1, in the show opener, which still took place in front of thousands of fans.

IBF featherweight world champion Luis Alberto Lopez has relished the role of the spoiler to the hometown hero for most of his career, now he wishes to look to do against “The Monster” Naoya Inoue in Japan.
